Memory Quotes
Memory has a small number of very good, well-sourced lines. Oscar Wilde, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), calls it the diary we all carry about with us. William James, in The Principles of Psychology (1890), says that forgetting is as important a function of the intellect as recollecting. Ray Bradbury, in Long After Midnight (1976), says that God gives us dreadful gifts and the most dreadful is memory.
The flagged lines are the kind that circulate on social media. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory” to Dr. Seuss, and a line about the sap in the trees carrying the memory of the red man to Chief Seattle. All three are marked misattributed.
Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
The emotions conveyed through your performance will be etched in our memories for years to come.
If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.